tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85599770009714277502018-09-17T06:46:07.116+02:00Mathias Darmell "About Europe"Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.comBlogger203125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-1453445624599331082015-09-15T10:19:00.000+02:002015-09-15T10:19:02.594+02:00Don't mess with Schengen and freedom of movement <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Schengen and the freedom of movement are under constant attacks from national leaders within the EU. We, the people of Europe won't accept any compromises with our rights and liberties.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/dont-mess-with-schengen-and-the-freedom-of" target="_blank">Sign and share to save Schengen and our freedom of movement</a><br /><br /><br /></div>Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-25247183196189810492015-09-02T16:27:00.000+02:002015-09-02T16:27:42.073+02:00Darmell 2019 EP election campaign<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://life.indiegogo.com/fundraisers/darmell-2019-ep-campaign/x/11985708" target="_blank">Support my campaign by sharing or donating</a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CimMPSeqTHU/VecG6JAtLOI/AAAAAAAAKeU/BkZL7f-_XqM/s1600/10731035_852196914810568_4452066798836348929_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="166" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CimMPSeqTHU/VecG6JAtLOI/AAAAAAAAKeU/BkZL7f-_XqM/s320/10731035_852196914810568_4452066798836348929_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--tS24aJpscM/VecHDAXurQI/AAAAAAAAKec/aZY5vHSliY8/s1600/10483619_766167460071970_8429508699329998498_n.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--tS24aJpscM/VecHDAXurQI/AAAAAAAAKec/aZY5vHSliY8/s320/10483619_766167460071970_8429508699329998498_n.png" width="319" /></a></div><br /></div>Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-89276779639426818662015-04-28T15:12:00.001+02:002015-05-12T00:25:09.142+02:00Multiple identities <p dir="ltr">Most Europeans have multiple identities. That's one of our biggest strengths along with diversity. </p>Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-23533902815779067702015-04-27T15:37:00.001+02:002015-05-12T12:28:11.658+02:00Our paradise or a sea of death <p dir="ltr">We can't be harsh enough in our criticism of the European Council's total lack of necessary action when it comes to the refugee disasters in the Mediterranean. The fact that thousands of people have died and thousands more will die, so close or even on European waters, if not appropriate measures are taken, is a common European problem and must be dealt with accordingly, with joint forces, in the short and in the long term.</p><p dir="ltr">The last council failed&#160;to find any sustainable measures to prevent further humanitarian disasters in the Mediterranean. </p><p dir="ltr">The councils comprise to triple the budget in a operation that is heavily under-funded, hardly creates a ripple in the Mediterranean and won't prevent more tragic and unnecessary deaths. </p><p dir="ltr">The short term solution requires a European funded and controlled operation. An operation in which member states make their combined resources from our navy's, coastguards and SAR units available to save lives and to stop human traffickers.</p><p dir="ltr">It's also miserable that the council failed to support any suggestions of legal ways for refugees to travel to Europe with a humanitarian visa. A solution that most likely would end the monopoly of human traffickers.&#160; </p><p dir="ltr">In the long term, Europe must learn its lesson and realize that common problems and challenges are best met together. It requires common resources and joint administration in these areas. If short term political interests and national battering prevents long term solutions from the council, then we can't wait for systematic reforms on the Council's competences. <br>It's not only a matter of democracy and accountability, it's also a matter of the common good and pragmatism.</p><p dir="ltr">The world are watching us and they will judge us on how we handle this humanitarian crisis on our own border. </p>Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-15222630767607171232015-04-21T01:34:00.001+02:002015-04-21T01:34:08.565+02:00Demand complete transparency on the EUCO summit this Thursday <p dir="ltr">President Tusk have called for a summit this Thursday in the aftermath of the tragedies in the Mediterranean. </p><p dir="ltr">We must demand that EUCO summit is held with open doors. We have the right to <u>know</u> who says what and to hold our national leaders accountable for their actions or lack of the same. </p><p dir="ltr">I challenge all good Europeans to bombard social media accounts of EUCO leaders and demand transparency. </p>Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-48408555602156485672015-04-20T22:53:00.001+02:002015-04-20T22:53:40.311+02:00No more backroom deals! <p dir="ltr">No more backroom deals! </p><p dir="ltr">EUCO must open its doors. Europeans have the right to hold every single national leader accountable for their words and actions in the council. <br></p>Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-45589005252666619752015-04-20T14:18:00.001+02:002015-04-20T14:18:12.112+02:00Mediterranean solutions <p dir="ltr">I wonder if the Swedish model for SAR could be a part of the solution to deal with the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean. <br>A pan-European SAR organization or umbrella organization of existing organizations, based on voluntary work and private donations, it would be able to operate around the clock along the war-ravaged coastlines. </p><p dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.sjoraddning.se ">SSRS</a> <br><br></p>Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-40919526648100534962015-04-13T15:48:00.001+02:002015-04-13T15:48:32.573+02:00We are Europeans and we have been given a responsibility <p dir="ltr">We are Europeans and we have been given a moral responsibility to speak up for all those who are being silenced. Domestically and globally.<br></p>Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-39742015738884265712015-04-08T16:03:00.001+02:002015-04-10T20:51:29.085+02:00Discrimination <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ZWeMZTGFPmU/VSU1OGbk_GI/AAAAAAAAFy8/HDibcTPWfAc/s640/blogger-image-1130605287.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ZWeMZTGFPmU/VSU1OGbk_GI/AAAAAAAAFy8/HDibcTPWfAc/s640/blogger-image-1130605287.jpg"></a></div><br></div>Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-804058157927420862015-04-06T00:50:00.001+02:002015-04-06T00:50:55.508+02:00War on terrorEvery compromise we make on democracy is a battle won by terrorists.&nbsp;Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-62412156437230572362015-04-06T00:44:00.001+02:002015-04-06T00:44:01.595+02:00ECI didn't boost citizens participationThe only true and serious way to increase citizens participation and EU level democracy is in fact a true EU level democracy.&nbsp;<div>Government by the people for the people.</div><div><br></div><div>Who is against more democracy? Who is against more participation?&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-83434641753185532422015-04-01T10:38:00.001+02:002015-04-01T10:39:01.973+02:00Is it time to say goodbyeIf we don't see radical change in the UK after the May 7 elections, the rest of EU, seriously must consider to say good bye to the UK and ask them to rethink their commitment to the European future outside the union.&nbsp;<div><br></div><div>Britain has become a destructive force In Europe when it comes to democratic development, liberties and European solidarity. Enough is enough!&nbsp;</div>Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-71058790049788758342015-03-30T16:29:00.001+02:002015-03-30T16:29:36.858+02:00Get the message out<div>How do we get the message of federalism, democracy and diversity out to the people of Europe?&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>My answer to that question is to go where we haven't gone before.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Let's meet the sceptics and the nationalists on their grounds. Talk to them, write articles and stand up for the ideas of a better EUrope. &nbsp;</div>Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-56324437702279714792015-03-28T12:38:00.001+01:002015-03-28T13:38:56.099+01:00The UK election and Nigel Farage<div>The Britts goes to the polls on May 7. This is a election that may drastically affect Britain's future. The biggest question is whether the election will lead to a referendum regarding Britain's exit from the EU. A exit that most likely would mean a breakup of the UK.</div><div><br></div><div>But I'm going to focus on. probably the best known and most exposed politician in the UK, Nigel Farage. The founder and leader of UKIP, United Kingdom independens party.</div><div><br></div><div>UKIP is a party that was built around the requirement for Britain to leave the EU. With a populisic rhetoric and buffoon-like approach in debates by party leader Farage, the party has, as so many other European sister parties succeeded in the art to be seen and heard in the media, to a much greater extent than the party's electoral support claims. This applies throughout Europe.&nbsp;</div><div>Few EU parliamentarians can historically be compared with how Farage has managed to captivate the media and use the media to get his policies and his person exposed to the voters.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Before and during the 2014 election campaign to the European Parliament the party developed into a clear xenophobic party and the so-called EU migrants tops the list of the party's rhetorical vulnerable groups.</div><div><br></div><div>UKIP has a libertarian view on economic policy, which distinguishes them from many other nationalist parties in Europe. But that's where the party's libertarianism ends. UKIP is an ultra-nationalist party with dreams of the old empire. The party's Nationalism overshadows all sense of reality and pragmatism in their policy's.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>In an attempt to counter the UKIP, the conservative Tories, like so many other established parties in Europe embraced parts of the UKIP's populism and rhetoric. The result seems to be the same in Britain as it was in Denmark, UKIP becomes strengthened, just like the Danish People's Party was strengthened in Denmark.</div><div><br></div><div>The outcome of the 2015 election is more uncertain than it has ever been in the UK. Unholy coalitions can be enforced and the future of the kingdom and its place in Europe and in the world is highly uncertain.</div>Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-44716438643310733932015-03-26T17:27:00.001+01:002015-03-26T17:27:29.485+01:00Human RightsIf you believe in human rights, you must stand up for human rights for everyone, everywhere.<div><br></div><div>Human rights, just as democracy can't be partial or conditional. Because if it is there is no human rights and no democracy.&nbsp;</div>Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-28225419969223412222015-03-22T19:07:00.001+01:002015-03-22T19:35:18.430+01:00EU reforms<div>We can't start working on true EU reforms until we get past the pro-anti EU bullshit.&nbsp;</div><div>Let's face the fact that we all are Europeans and that our future depends on each other.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The world is changing and Europe must stand strong and united in this process. The values of democracy and human rights can't be taken for granted especially if we don't take united measures at the European level.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>If we don't act now it won't be long until we regret our lack of action. &nbsp;&nbsp;</div>Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-2095056949763374792015-03-15T09:45:00.001+01:002015-03-15T10:32:02.660+01:00United EuropeI'm convinced that only a united and a federal EUrope can be a souverign Europe in the globalised world.&nbsp;<div><br></div><div>I'm convinced that only a united and a federal Europe with a constitutional foundation can guarantee democracy and human rights for all Europeans.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>I'm convinced that Europe must continue on its path towards democratic unification that started after world war 2.</div>Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-69658629908336680762015-03-12T18:47:00.001+01:002015-03-12T18:47:50.673+01:00Is this a compliment<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-joeg6wTz-uE/VQHRRFQj6GI/AAAAAAAAFl8/G0_7kU3S7Xw/s640/blogger-image--1564736176.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-joeg6wTz-uE/VQHRRFQj6GI/AAAAAAAAFl8/G0_7kU3S7Xw/s640/blogger-image--1564736176.jpg"></a></div>Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-54985876484577629842015-03-11T15:29:00.001+01:002015-03-11T18:27:58.255+01:00Europe has come to far to let the ship go under<div>Europe has come to far in its democratic, social and economic development for us to let national interests steer the handling of the current crisis and Europe's future development.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The Council has in recent years demonstrated its intolerable slowness and inability to handle, for Europe crucial issues. This includes everything from the financial crisis to foreign policy. &nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>It's time that the Council hand over their power to the elected parliament.</div><div>The Council should be replaced by directly elected national representatives and thus become a second chamber to Parliament.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Europe belongs to all Europeans and we can't let Europe be a playground for national politicians.&nbsp;</div>Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-23981896979127515752015-03-10T17:15:00.001+01:002015-03-10T17:15:50.038+01:00Government by the peopleEurope don't need British, German or Greek leadership, EU needs a government by the people for the people.&nbsp;<div><br></div><div><br></div>Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-36600000105403514722015-03-10T16:44:00.001+01:002015-09-02T16:32:13.404+02:00Blogging is not a crime<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div>"Blogging is not a crime, it's a expression of human rights"&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-526HEc9LToc/VP8RcObiqjI/AAAAAAAAFlA/5cGjA_F8cN8/s640/blogger-image-1494631352.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="166" src="http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-526HEc9LToc/VP8RcObiqjI/AAAAAAAAFlA/5cGjA_F8cN8/s200/blogger-image-1494631352.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /></div></div>Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-6833323309684280282015-03-04T15:57:00.001+01:002015-03-04T15:57:59.467+01:00Islamophobia play's a big part in the radicalisation and recruitment of
young Muslims in Europe.<div>Islamophobia play's a big part in the radicalisation and recruitment of young Muslims in Europe.</div><div><br></div><div>Nothing feeds extremism and fundamentalism more then other extremists and fundamentalists. This applies both in politics and in religion. Without one the other one choaks. Simple logic!</div><div><br></div><div>The open, welcoming and democratic society is the best weapon against all forms of fundamentalism and against terror and threats in its name. Everything else is giving the victory away to fundamentalist and extremist.</div><div><br></div><div>Europe must show courage and stand by its democratic and inclusive values ​​and refuse to yield to the threat these groups and individuals represent.</div>Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-58198927401117578672015-03-03T21:18:00.001+01:002015-03-04T12:01:01.167+01:00European history gives us a roadmap to our futureEuropeans must know its history if they want to shape their future.&nbsp;Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-21372601089590698172015-03-02T18:47:00.001+01:002015-03-02T18:47:45.972+01:00Interview with Leo Klinkers<div>I strongly recommend this interview with my friend Leo Klinkers, the co-author of the European federalist papers.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.withthevoices.com/2013/02/12/inteview-with-leo-klinkers-author-of-the-european-federalist-papers/">http://www.withthevoices.com/2013/02/12/inteview-with-leo-klinkers-author-of-the-european-federalist-papers/</a>&nbsp;Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559977000971427750.post-56089186745368666492015-02-17T00:07:00.001+01:002015-02-17T00:07:43.399+01:00IntoleranceThe strangest phenomenon of intolerance is that the intolerant require that their intolerance should be tolerated.Mathias Darmellhttps://plus.google.com/116275759674689649078noreply@blogger.com0